Nomadic_Groups_Effect_Upon_Settled_Socities

Nomadic Groups Effect Upon Settled Socities In the old world nomadic groups had a dynamic impact on sedentary (settled) societies. The nomads set in motion changes which in turn effected their lives and the lives of the sedentary societies. The first of these changes effected trade. The sedentary agricultural societies were simple and yet self-sufficient. The nomads by definition were members of a society that had no fixed residence but rather wandered from place to place for the purpose of securing their supply of food either by gathering of plants or by the hunting of animals. In traveling, the nomads were exposed to different peoples, cultures, natural resources, and goods. The nomads took these goods with them and these goods often peeked the interest of sedentary peoples. An example of this is when the Xiongnu, a Turkish-speaking people from the Mongolian confederacy received silk and other fine goods from their trade and tributary dealings with the Han dynasty. They then redistributed these products throughout their realm which then in turn helped to create a demand for Chinese goods in central Asia. The constant trading of goods helped establish a reliable network for the exchange of trade goods. Thus the nomads became nomads, nomadic, peoples, chinese, trade, goods, sedentary, societies, different, xiongnu, silk, example, became, yet, turn, place, people, exchange, cultures, cultural, between, agricultural, adopted, values, traditions, trading, took, states, society, settled, result, products, political, mutually, mounted